Robby on Rails

Rails development from the trenches

d3 not DDD


almost 6 years ago by Robby Russell on Robby on Rails.
First, a quick update from our sponsors… Brian and I talked yesterday and agreed to stop referring to Dialogue-Driven Development as DDD. We&...

Request: Personal Finances for OSX


almost 6 years ago by Robby Russell on Robby on Rails.
I’m looking to purchase a program for managing personal finances that runs on OSX. Any suggestions?...

Extreme Motivational Posters


almost 6 years ago by Robby Russell on Robby on Rails.
Take a look at these extreme programming motivational posters. Found via Think Box....

Clients Deserve Simplicity


almost 6 years ago by Robby Russell on Robby on Rails.
A few months ago, I posted an article titled, Trawling for Requirements, which was just before the Argon Express left for our trip to Chicago for RailsConf...

Happy Birthday Rails!


almost 6 years ago by Robby Russell on Robby on Rails.
The Ruby on Rails framework is now two years old! “We’re past the point of infatuation, this is love, and love is inclusive. Happy birthday Rails...

Fixing PostgreSQL corruption with Rails?


almost 6 years ago by Robby Russell on Robby on Rails.
People have been emailing me to let me know that the search on my blog was broken. Today I finally set out to fix the problem, which looked like a complex...

Rubyisms in Rails


almost 6 years ago by Robby Russell on Robby on Rails.
I’m not exactly sure how I failed to post this the other day… but better late than never. Jacob Harris aka harrisj (my favorite Rubyist...

Dialogue-Driven Development is about rounded corners


almost 6 years ago by Robby Russell on Robby on Rails.
In response to our introduction of Dialogue-Driven Development, mechanismalley.com writes, ”...it seems to be the Rails community’s pattern to take...

DDD (d3) is the new conversational software development


almost 6 years ago by Robby Russell on Robby on Rails.
I’m not sure how I missed this recent post on Martin Fowler’s bliki last week on Customer Affinity. In this post he references when the term...